Research, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
Translation of external news on disease control and Taiwan
News (1)
Taiwan Vice President receives his first dose of MVC-COV1901 this morning, feels good and shouts, " Taiwan praises!"
Reporter : Li Xinfang / Images of News (1) : Video Screenshots
Video Ref: https://news.tvbs.com.tw/live/news4live/9472?from=politics_content_pack, https://video.ltn.com.tw/article/5ETxD-rLR5o/PLI7xntdRxhw3Qcbd70QE2FRWgpOQ-hBHO
News (2) to (4) / Reporter : Jannis Falkenstern, The Epoch Times
News (2)
Florida surpasses 10,000 monoclonal antibody treatments
Since the inception of Monoclonal Antibodies (MA) treatment for those affected by COVID-19 two weeks ago, demand is high and is expected to go higher as time progresses thus lessening the load on hospitals.
At the state-supported sites, there have been approximately 10,000 Regeneron (brand name for two monoclonal antibodies that are given simultaneously) treatments administered to patients, and the numbers are expected to climb higher as word gets out and new sites are continuing to open throughout the state. This is not counting the many other patients who have received monoclonal antibodies at infusion centers in clinics and hospitals around the state.
Baptist Health South Florida’s Dr. Oscar Hernandez says he refers five to six patients per day and in addition to that one to two per day on the Telehealth site.
“The state is doing their part,” Hernandez said. “Doctors need to be more proactive in recommending the monoclonals to high-risk patients who test positive for COVID-19.”
He also said when utilizing a drive-through COVID testing site, people need to know their options after they are given their positive results. He recommends a fact sheet be given to patients (pdf) for more information.
However, Hernandez stressed the importance of COVID-19 shots.
“People who are high risk such as obesity, heart disease, kidney disease, and any immunocompromised person should have three shots, every 28 days,” he said. “But the monoclonal antibodies treatment is promising, and we are seeing on average a 70 percent reduction in hospital admissions as a result.”
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Fauci touts effectiveness of monoclonal antibodies
Tuesday, the White House Chief Medical Adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci touted the effectiveness of Monoclonal Antibodies. He estimates that the treatment could reduce hospitalization even higher—85 percent. He encouraged anyone with suppressed immune systems as well as other mitigating factors take advantage of this treatment.
“Bottom line is this is a very effective intervention for COVID-19. It is underutilized, and we recommend strongly that we utilize this to its fullest,” Fauci said at the press conference on Tuesday.
Flagler County Health Department Administrator, Bob Snyder received his COVID-19 vaccine in January 2021, but because of an underlying health condition contracted COVID about six weeks ago.
Initially, he did not know what was wrong because the symptoms were so mild, he thought he was just “run down” from his busy work life.
“It was sunny and 95 degrees and I’m freezing,” Snyder said. “I thought to myself, I’ve got to go to bed.”
Snyder said it occurred to him that he may be one of the breakout cases he had read about and went to the local pharmacy and bought an in-home COVID test. It was positive. That prompted Snyder to call a colleague who is a medical doctor and he had two words for him: Monoclonal Antibodies.
“I went to my local emergency room, and they gave me the Monoclonals by IV,” he said. “Within 24 hours I was 50 percent back to normal and by 72 hours I was 100 percent back.”
Vaccines are an important part to preventing infection with COVID Snyder said.
“I’m glad we have a surgeon general and a governor who put so much emphasis on the monoclonals,” he said. “I encourage everyone to get this treatment, but you have to do it within 10 days for it to be effective.”
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Florida resident feels blessed to have access to treatment
Broward County resident Renee Post sends her 70-year-old mother to a skilled nursing facility during the day while she works and felt safe sending her mother there as they tested for COVID at the facility every 36 hours. Until that one day.
“I was picking my mother up from the skilled nursing facility and they wouldn’t let us leave until after my mother tested negative for COVID,” Post said. “Then the nurse came running out to my car and told us we couldn’t leave because my mom had tested positive for COVID.”
Then Post said she recalled seeing a news report on the monoclonal antibodies and knew what she needed to do. She said her mother was unvaccinated because at the time they were offering vaccinations, her mother had a urinary tract infection and other underlying conditions that prevented doctors from administering the vaccine to her.
“I had her transported to Broward Health and they were well organized and took her right away and in two hours she walked out,” she said.
Post said that her mother had the “sniffles” the next day but otherwise you could not tell she had even been sick. Post said her mother is obese and suffers from a “myriad of health problems.”
“She would have been another statistic if I had not taken her and known about the monoclonals,” she said. “I feel so blessed to have had access to this treatment for her and I know if we had waited, we would’ve had a different outcome.”
Post said she works primarily from home but has coworkers internationally who have been affected by the virus.
“I see what it [the virus] can do,” she said. “I have lost 22 co-workers in India.”
If she were to contract COVID-19, Post said she will seek the treatment for herself because she sees “what a miracle” the treatment is.
This week the governor is focusing on opening more sites, one at The Villages, a retirement community in central Florida.
Christina Pushaw, Gov. DeSantis’ press secretary said, “If even 50 percent of those people were saved from needing hospitalization, that is 5,000 patients who would otherwise have been hospitalized—a huge number, almost a third of our total COVID hospital census,” she said. “This rollout is definitely saving lives.”
MA can prevent hospitalization or death in high-risk patients with COVID-19 and is widely available in Florida. Individuals 12 years and older, who are high-risk and have contracted or been exposed to COVID-19, are eligible for this treatment. Treatment is free and vaccination status does not matter.
Similarly in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott set up sites around the state beginning November 2020 and used Bamlanivimab, the Eli Lilly & Company monoclonal antibody therapy. It was the first to garner FDA approval followed by Regeneron.
When former President Donald Trump made a full recovery from COVID-19 after using monoclonals, he instructed the federal government to buy hundreds of thousands of doses of the two monoclonal treatment drugs and allocate supplies to the states, which would in turn determine distribution to hospitals and healthcare facilities. The doses were allocated to states and U.S. territories based on their share of hospitalized and infected patients.
To find treatment facilities that the governor has opened in the past few weeks visit https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/monoclonal-antibody-therapy/
News (5) to (9) / Reporter : Jonal Aleccia, The Los Angeles Times
Nonetheless, after she fell ill
with COVID-19 last month, the Florida preschool teacher found herself desperate
to try an experimental product that promised to ease her symptoms: infusion
with a potent laboratory-produced treatment known as monoclonal
antibody therapy.
“I was in bed; I was feeling so
badly, like the longest flu I ever had in my life,” said Ruppert, 54, of
Gainesville. “I was, like, whatever, give me whatever.”
Ruppert and her husband, Michael,
61, who also came down with COVID-19, are among thousands of people in the U.S.
who in recent weeks have rushed to receive infusions of the powerful antibody
cocktails shown to reduce hospitalizations by 70% when given promptly to
high-risk patients.
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Florida and Texas governors advocate monoclonal antibody treatments
The rush has been fueled in no
small part by governors in Southern states, where vaccinations lag and
hospitalizations are soaring thanks to infections
caused by the Delta variant. Republican Govs. Ron DeSantis of Florida
and Greg Abbott of Texas are among leaders touting the antibody treatments even as
they downplay vaccination and other measures that health officials say
can prevent illness in the first place.
Together, they have opened dozens of state-sponsored sites where
monoclonal antibody therapy is offered. They hold regular news conferences to
endorse the potentially lifesaving benefits while continuing to resist wider
public health measures such as mask mandates and so-called vaccine
passports.
“Anyone that has a better-than-average risk with COVID, if you do
get infected, this is something you can do early and potentially really make a
difference,” DeSantis said Saturday at the opening of a monoclonal antibody
infusion site in Manatee County.
News (7)
Regeneron increases doses to meet demand in four American states
Since mid-July, delivery of the
antibody cocktail made by Regeneron
Pharmaceuticals has soared from 25,000 doses to 125,000 doses per
week, said company spokeswoman Alexandra Bowie, with about half shipped to four
states: Florida, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama. The treatments use
laboratory-produced molecules to replace, enhance or mimic the body’s natural
antibodies that fight infection.
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Infusion takes about 25 minutes and an hourly observation for side-effects
The sudden spotlight on antibody
treatments has whipsawed some public health experts, who have
struggled for months to create and sustain sites capable of offering the
therapy. The treatment is delivered primarily through a one-dose intravenous
infusion that takes about 25 minutes, followed by an hour of observation for
reactions.
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Monoclonal antibody treatment only within 10 days of covi infection or exposure
Antibody cocktails, which must be given within 10 days of
coronavirus infection or exposure, are effective for many patients, but “this
is not a substitute for vaccine, by any means,” said Dr.
Christian Ramers, chief of population health and an infectious-disease
specialist at Family Health Centers of San Diego.
“It’s a backwards strategy,” Ramers said. “It’s so much better to
prevent a disease than to use an expensive, cumbersome and difficult-to-use
therapy. It does not make any medical sense to lean into monoclonals to the
detriment of vaccines. It’s like playing defense with no offense.”
News (10) to (12) / Translation of external news on Afghanistan
News (10)
It is said that the military plane flew away from Kabul was attacked and the Italian government officials denied it
Image : Photo/Dazhi Image Reuters
Ref: news.tvbs.com.tw/world/1573434
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News (15)
At least 2 explosions in Kabul
Reporter : Zachary Stieber, The Epoch Times
At least two explosions took place near the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, complicating efforts to evacuate Americans, Afghans, and others trying to leave the country before the U.S. pulls out its troops.
A bomb went off at the Abbey Gate at Hamid Karzai International Airport, U.S. Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby said. At least one other explosion erupted at or near the Baron Hotel, which is a short distance from Abbey Gate.
The bombs resulted in “a number of U.S. and civilian casualties,” Kirby said on Twitter.
A Taliban official told Reuters that the initial explosion came from a suspected suicide bomb and left at 13 dead, including children.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said the bomb killed two or more people and wounded another 15.
The United Kingdom’s defense ministry in a social media post it was “working urgently to establish what has happened in Kabul and its impact on the ongoing evacuation effort.”
“Our primary concern remains the safety of our personnel, British citizens, and the citizens of Afghanistan. We are in close contact with our U.S. and other NATO allies at an operational level on the immediate response to this incident,” it added.
Afghan media outlet TOLO News published photographs of injured, bloody people in Kabul being taken to a nearby hospital on makeshift stretchers.
The explosions happened shortly after Britain’s armed forces minister James Heappey warned that there was a “very credible” threat that the airport in Kabul would be attacked by the ISIS terror group within hours.
Britain, the United States, and Australia had urged citizens not to travel to the airport late Wednesday.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul warned of unspecified “security threats.”
“I can’t get into the specifics of the threat information but it was clearly regarded as credible, as imminent, as compelling. Our intention was to urge Americans and, frankly, others, not to come to the airport,” Ross Wilson, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, said on ABC News on Thursday just before the explosion went off.
As many as 1,500 Americans remain in Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday.
Thousands of people have been rushing to the airport to try to flee the Taliban-held country before U.S. troops withdraw.
Ahead of the Aug. 31 U.S. withdrawal date, and with Taliban militants stopping many from reaching the airport, several European countries had already stopped or prepared to halt evacuations while Canada ended its evacuation efforts.
“The reality on the ground is the perimeter of the airport is closed. The Taliban have tightened the noose. It’s very, very difficult for anybody to get through at this point,” General Wayne Eyre, the Canada’s acting chief of defense staff, told a press conference earlier Thursday.
The first bomber at the Abbey Gate of the airport was wearing a vest and was being searched by troops when he detonated. The second was a car bomb attack at the Baron Hotel. It is unclear how the first bomber got through Taliban checkpoints and close enough to the Marines to kill them.
Neither he nor his Defense Secretary, Secretary of State or Pentagon spokesman made a statement on Thursday after the attacks aside from tweeting their condolences for the families of the soldiers lost.
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Biden vows to hunt down ISIS-K, takes responsibility for carnage but stands by withdrawal
A growing chorus of high-profile Republican political figures have
joined the push to call for Democrat President Joe Biden’s resignation – as
well as the resignation of other regime officials over the latter’s disastrous
handling of the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. A terrorist attack
killed13 U.S. servicemen on Thursday after Biden extended the
withdrawal deadline.
Republican Sens. Josh Hawley (MO), Marsha Blackburn (TN), and Roger Marshall (KS) have called for Biden’s resignation, as well as Reps. Matt Gaetz (GA), Mo Brooks (AL), and Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA). Greene introduced Articles of Impeachment against Biden last Friday following Biden’s decision to extend the Afghanistan withdrawal deadline.
Biden hosted a poorly-received press conference on Thursday in which held his head in his hands and blamed Trump for the tragedy after pledging to take responsibility.
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Trump slams Biden after Thursday terrorist attack, sends condolences to the families of the killed victims
As National File previously reported, former President Donald Trump released a statement on Thursday slamming Biden after a terrorist attack killed at least 12 U.S. servicemen in Afghanistan:
45th President Donald Trump offered a statement via email addressing the devastating attack on the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan earlier on 26 August which led to the deaths of at least 12 members of the United States Armed Forces, while Joe Biden, his White House, and the federal government have remained silent on the deadly bombings.
“Melania and I send our deepest condolences to the families of our brilliant and brave Service Members whose duty to the U.S.A. meant so much to them. Our thoughts are also with the families of the innocent civilians who died today in the savage Kabul attack,” wrote President Trump in a statement released moments ago. “This tragedy should never have been allowed to happen, which makes our grief even deeper and more difficult to understand. May God Bless the U.S.A.”
Earlier today, the Biden regime admitted that Americans were injured but offered no specifics on possible fatalities or the extent of the injuries. Later, Russian and Taliban spokespersons gave much larger casualty estimates than were originally offered by the Biden regime, and media independently verified that at least 12 Americans were killed in the bombings.
United States officials within the Biden regime have spoken to media, all under strict conditions of anonymity, and said that the attack is being attributed to ISIS, the Islamic State, which media has described as more radical and violent than the Taliban. Prior to the attack, Biden offered contradictory messages suggesting that the airport should be avoided due to a terror threat from ISIS.
Refs: https://nationalfile.com/breaking-gop-lawmakers-josh-hawley-matt-gaetz-ronny-jackson-mtg-join-call-for-biden-to-resign-over-afghanistan-debacle/, https://nationalfile.com/breaking-trump-offers-presidential-statement-after-12-u-s-servicemen-killed-in-kabul-biden-white-house-silent/
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President Trump releases message to America in response to Afghanistan disaster
Reporter : Andrew White, National File / Image : Video Screenshot
President Donald Trump released a video tonight reacting to the news of the ISIS-K terrorist bombing that cost at least 13 US service members their lives. “As one nation, America mourns the loss of our brave and brilliant American service members in savage and barbaric terrorist attack in Afghanistan,” said President Trump.
“These noble American warriors laid down their lives in the line of duty. They sacrificed themselves for the country that they loved, racing against time to rescue their fellow citizens from harm’s way. They died as American Heroes, and our nation will honor their memory forever,” said President Trump. “I want to express my deepest condolences to the families of those we have lost. Today, all Americans grieve alongside you. Together, we also pray that God will heal the other courageous American service members who were wounded in this heinous attack.”
“In addition, our hearts are with the families of all the innocent civilians who died, and with the many men, women, and children who were terribly injured in this act of evil,” President Trump continued. “This tragedy should never have taken place. It should never have happened, and it would not have happened if I were your President.”
“Over the past few weeks, I know that many Americans have felt profound sorrow and even pain watching the events taking place in Afghanistan, and perhaps none more so than the veterans of that 20-year war,” President Trump continued. “Many of them answered the call proudly and without hesitation after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. Every American who served in Afghanistan has made tremendous sacrifices for our country.
“On behalf of your fellow citizens, I want you to know that those sacrifices were not made in vain. We know what you did. We know how brave you were, and we thank you. We salute you and we honor you for all time. I hope that every American will join me in continuing to pray for the safe return of all U.S. citizens and soldiers from Afghanistan in the coming days,” President Trump said. “Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.”
News (21) to (23) / Editor : Zhou Zixin
News (21)
The terrorist attack in Kabul caused US casualties and Trump leading the Republicans called for Biden to step down
Image : After speaking on the situation in Afghanistan, Biden left without responding to the media. (Photo/Associated Press of Dazhi Image)
Trump, who signed a troop withdrawal agreement with the Taliban during his tenure, has repeatedly criticized Biden’s handling of the Afghanistan crisis. After the explosion on Thursday, Trump also spoke again, calling the Kabul suicide attack a "tragedy" and stated that it should be avoided.
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Biden should resign or be impeached
In addition, many Republican politicians have expressed on social platforms that Biden should resign or be impeached.
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri said that he criticized Biden for "neither the will to lead nor the ability to lead" through a statement issued by his office, and he strongly urged him to resign.
The chairman of the House Republican Conference, Elise Stefanik, even directly accused Biden of "blood on his hands," saying that the "national security and humanitarian disasters in Afghanistan are completely the result of Biden’s weak and incompetent leadership" and thinking that Biden is not the commander-in-chief.
Image : Thick smoke rose above the explosion site. (Photo/Dazhi Image AP)
Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill called McCarthy's appeal a "false trick" and said that the Biden administration has repeatedly briefed members of Congress.
News (23)
Support of Biden now 41%, disapproval 55%
Since announcing the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the support of US President Biden has suffered a severe setback. The overall performance of support is now 41%, and the disapproval is 55%. Not only Republicans seized the opportunity to attack wildly, but even Democrats of their own are rare. The gunfire was directed at Biden, thinking that Biden had mishandled the Afghan issue.
Ref: news.tvbs.com.tw/world/1573590
News (24) to (40) / Host : Li Dayu / Publisher : Dayu News Insider / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/21/8/26/n13189318.htm
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